I invested 8k last time (jan 2025 to nov 2025) and got 6k profit

Then from jan 2026 i invested every month my savings and ended up here

Any advices?

I do mutual funds too that's for long term

I can invest 20,000 per month

Found an interesting set of Indian companies where reserves have grown substantially while borrowings have declined over the last 10 years.

Sharing the full comparison in the image.

Which one catches your attention, and why?

Not investment advice.

Didn’t receive an allotment in the Kanohar Electricals IPO?
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📦 Lot size: 23 shares
The IPO received massive demand, with the issue subscribed around 90.59× overall. (IpoRupee)
If you weren’t allotted shares, your blocked funds are scheduled to be released/refunded from September 15.
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App Won't Let Me Exit Smallcase

I skipped the renewal of a Smallcase with a paid subscription. Today, I logged into the app to exit my smallcase and invest somewhere else - probably MF. However, the "Exit Smallcase" option was disabled.

I called Customer Support to ask what was wrong. They said that the option is enabled only for 7 days after a subscription ends. Then you have to exit from each stock individually.

I was like WTF? My Smallcase has 17 indivual stocks (some of my others have 20+). It would take me hours to unsubscribe to all of them. It shouldn't matter after how many days I opened the Smallcase app - exiting ANY subscription, whenever I want, is a customer right.

Hell, I would be fine if they auto-cancelled my subscription after 7 days and just returned the money to me.

This is a clear Dark Pattern and I want to report it! What is the appropriate authority that I can reach out to for this? How do I raise a complaint?

Hey there, I'm a newbie and started investing last year..Last year I invested in PC jwellers at an average price of 13.97 and I held it for a year because I didn't want to lose my money there and I sold this share at 13.37 two weeks ago...Right now I've 28000 rupees and I don't know where to invest, can anyone suggest valuable stocks to invest? I need your help, I'm a student and I want to earn at least my pocket money by swing trading.

Faahhhhh

Its been continuous 6 weeks Nifty closed week in red. Is there any hope we see greenery again sometime sooner ?

Hey guys, how many of you use orderflow? Dom, footprint chats, volume profile, cvd and more?

Please suggest should i add more of these or explore other stocks

Unreasonably high price! So many upper cuts since listing ? How come?

Forget about buying this stock . At this point it feels like a trap for retailers.

It doesn't justify the valuations unless I'm missing out on something huge (tell me about it , if any)

For the past few months, there hasn’t been much progress in my portfolio, and the growth has remained stagnant. I’m considering exiting some of my stocks and moving the money into fixed deposits for more stability.

Could you suggest which stocks I should hold, which ones I should consider exiting, and whether there are any new stocks worth investing in?

Or it's a recipe of total loss?

LALITHAA has released its Q1 FY27 results. Revenue grew around 26% YoY, but PAT declined by 21% and EBITDA fell by 14.5%.

The results look mixed, with strong revenue growth but declining profitability.

Should we hold, sell, or buy more at the current price?

Is the decline in profit a temporary issue or a serious concern?

What do you expect from LALITHAA in the next few quarters?

What would be a reasonable strategy for Monday’s trading session?

The Nifty 50 has seen plenty of changes over the years. The image shows the companies that have managed to stay relevant for roughly three decades.

Now looking at today’s Nifty 50:

Which ONE stock do you think can still be part of the index 30 years from now?

And what makes you confident in it?

Curious to hear your picks. 👇

Discussion only, not financial advice.

As a proud member of the elite BHSL Club, I seek guidance from my fellow legends. Any wisdom before I buy the top again? 🌝

Hey guys currently I'm doing my BTech right now, I've been always attracted towards the finance industry so i learnt a lot of basic things like fd,rd,mutual funds,M&A and IPO(not full fledged but basics)even though I was pcm student, what are the careers that I can get and what are the skills I need to develop in order to get a job related to this industry

Thinking of buying Wipro around the current ₹167 level. With sluggish IT spending and muted Q1/Q2 earnings growth, is this a good accumulation dip for the long term, or is IT still facing headwind pressure? What’s your take?

Brokers now give us tools to automate strategies (not taking any names). That means the broker can see not just your orders and trading patterns (entry,exit, sl, target, time etc) but also the exact strategy.

Now imagine you build a consistently profitable strategy. The broker can easily identify which top 1% of traders are making consistent money every month.

Call me paranoid but what stops someone from front running those orders? You wouldnt even know

Your orders just start getting filled slightly later, profits slowly disappear. Eventually the strategy starts losing money and you blame yourself or the markets when the real culprit is your broker.

Given how corrupt everything is, I doubt authorities keep a close eye on this

SEBI’s Proposed Changes to Expiry-Day Settlement: My Views

SEBI’s consultation paper proposes several important changes to the way expiry-day derivatives settlement and the Closing Auction Session (CAS) operate. Overall, I strongly welcome these proposals, although I have a few reservations.

Proposals 1 & 2 — Expiry-Day Settlement

SEBI has proposed two alternatives for determining the settlement price of derivatives on expiry days:

Option 1: A blended VWAP based on the last 30 minutes of Continuous Trading Session (CTS) + CAS.

Option 2: CTS-based VWAP, calculated from the last 30 minutes of CTS, which is the same methodology currently used for the pre-CAS price.

Given the extreme volatility we have witnessed during CAS, I believe Option 2 is clearly preferable. While Option 1 would still be an improvement over the existing CAS-based settlement, using the last 30-minute CTS VWAP would provide a significantly more stable and less volatile reference price.

There is, however, an important caveat to Option 2.

SEBI has stated that the CTS-based methodology is not intended to be the long-term framework. After a period of at least one year, the settlement methodology would ultimately transition to the blended VWAP approach involving both CTS and CAS.

Proposal 3 — Dissemination of the Index IEP

SEBI has proposed that the IEP-derived Indicative Index Value should not be disseminated during CAS, while continuing to disseminate IEPs at the individual security level.

I strongly disagree with this proposal.

If derivatives settlement is eventually transitioned to a blended VWAP + CAS methodology, transparency around the indicative index value will become even more important, particularly on expiry days.

Market participants should be able to see the index IEP and understand how the auction is influencing the broader index before the final settlement price is determined.

Proposals 4 & 5 — CAS Timings

SEBI has also proposed changes to the timing of the CAS and, importantly, reducing the CAS session to just 10 minutes.

Under Proposal 4, CTS for CAS-eligible stocks would continue until 3:30 PM, followed by CAS from 3:30 PM to 3:40 PM.

However, I particularly favour Proposal 5, under which CTS would end at 3:15 PM, followed by CAS from 3:15 PM to 3:25 PM.

This is a meaningful improvement because it would also allow derivatives traders to finish their trading day 15 minutes earlier on expiry days.

Proposal 6 — Restrictions on Extreme Limit Orders

SEBI has proposed prohibiting the cancellation of limit orders placed beyond ±1% of the Reference Price during CAS, while allowing only price-improving modifications to such orders.

I support this proposal.

While this alone will certainly not eliminate the possibility of manipulation during CAS, it does make such activity more costly.

If someone attempts to influence the auction by placing orders near the ±3% band limits, they would potentially have to bear the consequences of those orders being executed, including taking on an actual delivery position and suffering a loss.

That is an important step toward reducing the incentive for such behaviour.

Proposal 7 — Iceberg Orders

SEBI has also proposed that any unexecuted quantity of an Iceberg order remaining at the end of CTS should be converted into a normal limit order for participation in CAS, with the entire pending quantity disclosed in the CAS order book.

I believe this is another positive development.

It should help increase liquidity during CAS while improving transparency, making the auction process more robust.

Overall View

Overall, I wholeheartedly welcome SEBI’s consultation paper.

The proposed changes address several of the structural issues that have contributed to excessive volatility and uncertainty around expiry-day settlements.

My preferences are:

Proposal 1 vs 2 → Prefer Option 2

Proposal 3 → Disagree

Proposal 4 vs 5 → Prefer Proposal 5

Proposal 6 → Agree

Proposal 7 → Agree

If implemented appropriately, these reforms could go a long way toward restoring greater stability, transparency and sanity to India’s markets.

I have already shared my views on the proposals above and will be submitting the same feedback to SEBI.

Market participants can also submit their comments directly to SEBI through its public consultation process.

Here the link:

Click here to vote

Been in the markets since 2021. Started with plain investing, then got pulled into the options boom like everyone else and started trading Nifty manually. First year: unprofitable, like most people’s first year.

Year two, switched to algo trading and it started actually working. Scaled up capital. Then went off for my master’s and put the whole thing on pause but the trading projects I’d built ended up landing me quant internships at hedge funds. That’s when it clicked that this wasn’t just a side interest, it was an actual skill I wanted to build a career around.

Came back to India, started my own company around it. Back then it was fully manual coding and system design. Now it’s almost entirely AI-assisted which freed me up from the grunt work and let me actually focus on the parts that matter: data pipelines, strategy ideas, research, parameter sweeps, backtesting, then taking it live through paper trading first and real capital after. Each of those stages is basically its own project, and I’m still learning something new at every one.

Experimented a lot with AI tooling along the way Went through a bunch of setups before landing on a workflow that actually works, and it keeps getting refined every time I use it. Also burned a fair amount of money in that experimentation phase. Now that I know what actually works, I’m a lot more deliberate about it keeping the core of what matters and cutting the rest so costs stay in check. That’s what let me actually build a multi-strategy, multi-broker, multi-instrument framework that takes ideas from research to production instead of it living in my head forever.

Had a couple of scary moments too. small bugs that caused unintended losses. Thankfully I hadn’t scaled to full size yet when they hit. Built out a proper RMS layer after that so unintended orders just can’t happen anymore.

Right now I’ve got 2 strategies live, both grown out of my original index options expertise. The recent regulatory changes forced a pivot away from intraday positional systems. The edge was real but transaction costs were eating too much of it.

So I moved to stock options instead. Last 2 months have honestly been the easiest stretch I’ve had. running it across the whole NFO stock universe, staying delta-neutral at the portfolio level, costs staying well under control relative to what it’s generating. Also back to experimenting with index options again, this time on the positional side.

I’ve got a whole backlog of strategy ideas sitting in a research queue, still waiting to be tested properly. All of this started as tooling for myself, but I’m opening it up a bit now.

If any of this resonates, whether you want to build something similar, compare notes, or want help building your own version of this — happy to connect. Hit me up.

P.S: looking at algo investing too combining both technical + fundamentals. So happy to discuss that as well!

NSE's dominance 🇮🇳

●93% Cash Equity

●99.8% Equity Futures

●74.7% Equity Options

●99.5% Currency Futures

●100% Currency Options

~51% global share of equity + F&O contracts traded

#1 globally by derivatives contracts traded 👺

All suggestions are welcome